Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-03-19
LEONE LOCAL CHAT.


welfare the generality of mankind
have heretofore taken no further in
terest in than TO quietly refer them
to committee on the whole; per-
haps on the principle of what is every
body's business, is nobody's business !;
and if they are not everybody's, they
are at least into everybody's, (which
is much the same thing, only worse
and more of it. That is their BUSH
ness, and it requires a.three. ply grade
of christianity to stand the wear and
tear of not only keeping up their own
standard, but yours, as well. They
must carry around with them tele-
scopic discrimination thro' which to
throw errors away off yonder, where
they will dwindle into molehills; the
good you meant to do, must be look
ed at the reverse way and made a
mountain. They must saturate every
body with the perfume of good in
tentions and bleach their actions in
the sum of charity until they are
white enough to bear the scrutiny of
the public's great big searching eye,
and the direct Interpretation of
child's pure thought. If they cam
not do this, and if they cannot carry
at their penis point the spirit that
shapes and transforms in language,
as the sculptor does in marble, then
however well fitted they may be for
work in the "general assembly of
Heaven" they have no business with
the reporters pen on this planet
From the Baltimore American comes
the following:
1t is not often that the chaplains of
legislative bodies pay attention in
their supplications to the reporters.
The reason probably is that they have
so much to pray for in regard to the
Legislators that they do not think of
anyone else; or, perhaps, they are of
the opinion that the newspaper men
do not need attention so badly as the
politicians. To the chaplain of the
Minnesota legislature, however, the
credit is due for an innovation in this
matter. The other day he closed his
prayer with the following words:
"And now, dear Lord, bless the
reporters, whose nimble pens catch
our every word almost before it is
uttered. Like Thyself, they are om-
nipresent and almost 0mnipotent. Ell
we take the wings of the morning
and fly to the uttermost parts Of the
earth they are there. They meet us
in the jungles of Africa they waylay
US in the solitary canyons of Colorado,
and when at length we find the lati
tude of the magnetic pole, behold
they are there. May their light and
goodness be equal to their power, and
when the General Assembly of Heav-
Ell convenes let no reporter be ex-
Guided. Amen !"
This is one of the ablest blendings
of petition and compliment that we
have run across for long time.
"The Editor of the MARTINsBURG
HERALD is kind and sincere friend
and the Gazette hopes that his life
may be long, his paths the paths of
peace and prosperity, his sleep sound
and sweet, his children hearty and
happy, and his latter days his best
days" -Ritchie Gazette.
This is a candid and benevolent
eulogy, which the Editor of THE
HERALD couldn't resist if he tried,
and which he perhaps appreciates all
the more from the seldomness of such
visitations, and perhaps also from
that natural and decided preference
we all have to read for ourselves the
good opinions that Others entertain of
us. To have them published outside
of the graveyard, is, as you know, IA
very rare satisfaction. The Editor of
the Gazette is casting bread upon the
waters, ec amino. 1t is safe to say
that it will return to him with gener-
Gus interest when the refiuent tide
comes in.
Mr.. Harry Homrick has transform
ed the room lately occupied by Mr..
Evans, into temptingly bright jew
elry store. The stock is new and
handsome and the proprietor whom
it is not hard to assimilate with the
latter adjective on prima facie evil
dencel is well known as an energetic
young business man, who is sure to
succeed.
There is a dearth of the dramatic
element here now, at least of the kind
that poses before the lights. Here's
a little bit of comedy / heard of few
days ago. 1t happened in heightened
circles. The young man had adopted
a sameness in the repetition of his
love making that was growing tire
some, and she casually remarked,
"you have all the symptoms of Calen-
ture, don't you suffer from p" He
said that he dident know as he did,"
but rather think he astonished DR..
MrSherry the next day by asking
him what he knew about a disease
called Calenture," and if it was
anything like heart disease. or as
fatal.n And now one young man
knows more about Webster'S Una
oridged than he used to.
The car, abraham Lincoln"
which became famous thro' the fact
that it bore the remains of President
Lincoln from Washington to Spring
field in 1865, is now used to transfer
section hands ON the Colorado Central.
At the time it was used for Lincoln's
funeral, it was a handsome direc-
tors car" valued at $4,000. 1t was
bought at a Government sale by Col.
Ward H. Lamon, who feared it would
fall into the hands of the Greatest
Show on Earth" He in turn sold it
to the Union Pacific Company, and
it was used as an officers car till 1869,
when Sidney Dillon turned it into an
emigrant car. Since then its down
ward career has been rapid, till it is
no longer given a place even in an
emigrant train 1.-THE Railroader."
Rev. ]. F. Andrews returned to his
pastorate here another year, and is
welcomed back.
His friends in this community learn
with regret of the illness of Rev. w.
F. Roberts, and hope he will soon